SHANDAKEN, N.Y. – Two off-duty New York Police Department officers, one of them a groom on his wedding day, died in the crash of a rented 2018 Maserati after celebrating at the reception, police said Monday.

The groom, Officer Michael Colangelo of Huntington Station, Long Island, and Detective John M. Martinez, of Hauppauge, Long Island, died late Sunday in the town of Shandaken in Ulster County, about a mile from a resort where the wedding had taken place.

Martinez was driving when the car left the road, struck a tree and overturned around 11:30 p.m., state police said. A third person in the car who police say was not the bride suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

“As far as we can tell they were taking this car out for a ride,” said State Police Maj. Pierce Gallagher. “I feel comfortable saying that the speed was excessive.”

The speed limit on the road is 40 mph and Gallagher said he believed the officers were not wearing seat belts, but the backseat passenger was. He said police were waiting autopsy and toxicology results.

The officers previously had worked together in the NYPD Special Operations Division. Martinez was most recently assigned to the 84th Precinct in Brooklyn.

Colangelo, who moved in with his girlfriend two or three years ago, was “very friendly, very outgoing,” neighbor Patti Orsini told Newsday . “He would always lend a helping hand when…I was doing yard work and needed a little muscle.”

He was part of the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit canine team and Orsini said Colangelo “just loved that dog,” named Jimbo.

“He’d walk the dog around the neighborhood every day and say hello to everybody,” said another neighbor, Ray Spatafora. “He was a real good neighbor and a real good guy.”